A) Burdensome, inconvenient B) Cruel, spiteful C) Small, scanty ü D) Unbelievable, absurd
Exiguous comes from the Latin exiguus meaning scanty in measure or number. The English word retains that sense, but can also be used to mean extremely small, diminutive, minute. Exiguous is often used with reference to such mundane matters as income and resources, but may venture farther afield, as when Eric Linklater uses it to describe a nymph’s costume in his short story “The Abominable Imprecation”.
